Sorcery or science? : contesting knowledge and practice in West African Sufi texts / Ariela Marcus-Sells.

"Examines the works of two Sufi Muslim scholars, Sīdi al-Mukhtār al-Kuntī (d. 1811) and his son Sīdi Muḥammad (d. 1826), focusing on their cosmology and metaphysics of the realm of the unseen, in relation to the history of magical discourses within the Hellenistic and Arabo-Islamic worlds&...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Project MUSE)
Main Author: Marcus-Sells, Ariela, 1985- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2022]
Series:Magic in history.
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